Food Policy

Key Food Security Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

The landmark Food Security Bill, that gives legal right to cheaper foodgrains to 63.5 per cent of the country's population, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
22/12/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Legislation, Subsidies, Public Distribution System (PDS), Poverty, Rice, Wheat, Nutrition, Children, Women, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Government hides more than it reveals in the Food Security Bill

In the second term of the United Progressive Alliance, the Food Ministry has been totally consumed with the drafting of the Bill which has been routed through the National Advisory Council, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council and the Empowered Group of Ministers on Food.

Publication Date: 
22/12/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Legislation, Subsidies, Planning Commission, Poverty, Public Distribution System (PDS), Ministry Of Rural Development, Food Security, Floods, Drought, Cyclones, Earthquakes, Tamil Nadu, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food Security Bill to be tabled today

The Government will introduce in the Lok Sabha on Thursday the National Food Security Bill which seeks to give legal rights to subsidised foodgrains to identified beneficiaries under the public dis

Publication Date: 
22/12/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Tamil Nadu, Legislation, Population, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies

Challenges of under-recoveries of petroleum products

Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas present this ninth report on "Challenges of Under-recoveries of Petroleum Products". The term "under-recovery" has been used by the Government for "losses" experienced by the public sector oil marketing companies due to incomplete cost recovery on selling of petroleum product in the market.

Publication Date: 
21/12/2011
Lok Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Oil Products, India, Diesel, Petrol, LPG, Kerosene, Fuel Pricing, Subsidies, Public Distribution System (PDS), Public Sector, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Industry
Food Policy

Tamil Nadu seeks exemption from Food Security Bill

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday expressed her “strong opposition” to the draft Food Security Bill, 2011 and urged the Centre to exempt Tamil Nadu from the purview of the Bill.

Publication Date: 
21/12/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Population, Planning Commission, Subsidies, Rice, Wheat, Kerosene, Food Policy
Food Policy

Food subsidy bill hit R45,125 cr on December 15, says Thomas

New Delhi The Centre has released R45,125 crore towards food subsidy until December 15, in line with its budgeted subsidy of R60,572 crore for the current fiscal through March 2012.

India’s food subsidy bill rose to R62,929,56 crore in 2010-11 from R58,242.45 crore the year before, food and public distribution minister K V Thomas said in Parliament on Monday, a day after the Cabinet cleared the food security bill that proposes to widen the government's subsidised grain sales to feed the poor

Publication Date: 
20/12/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Subsidies, Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Ministry Of Agriculture, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Security

The National Food Security Bill, 2011 (Bill No. 132 of 2011)

Read text of the National Food Security Bill cleared by the Union Cabinet to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Security, Nutrition, India, Public Distribution System (PDS), Malnutrition, Children, Starvation
Food Policy

India Approves Draft Food Security Law

– India's federal cabinet Sunday approved a draft law on food security aimed at providing low-priced staples -- mainly rice and wheat -- to roughly two-thirds of the country's 1.2 billion people.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong)
Tags:
India, Food Policy, Legislation, Food Security, Parliament, Rice, Wheat, Public Distribution System (PDS), Unemployment, Subsidies, Food Crops
Food Policy

Food Security Bill gets Cabinet nod

The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers.

Food minister K V Thomas said a meeting of the cabinet that cleared the Bill also decided to introduce it in the current session of Parliament.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Ministry Of Agriculture, Public Distribution System (PDS), Poverty, Parliament, Subsidies, Population, Economy, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Bill provides for cost sharing with States

The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Population, Public Distribution System (PDS), Ministry Of Agriculture, Wheat, Rice, Starvation, Malnutrition, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies

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